BILL ANALYSIS
Senate Research Center H.B. 3092
By: Hilderbran et al. (Duncan)
AUTHOR'S / SPONSOR'S STATEMENT OF INTENT
Currently, students who are sent to a Texas Juvenile Probation Commission facility have a significant impact on the local school districts' accountability rating system used by the Texas Education Agency.
H.B. 3092 provides that a student who is sent to such a facility or a residential program is not considered to be a student of the school district in which the program or facility is physically located, ensuring that the performance of the students in those facilities and programs do not affect the accountability ratings of school districts.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to any state officer, institution, or agency.
SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS
SECTION 1. Amends Section 39.072(d), Education Code, as follows:
(d) Provides that, for the purposes of determining the performance of a school district under this chapter (Public School System Accountability), notwithstanding any other provision, a student confined by court order in a residential program or facility operated by or under contract with the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission, or any other governmental entity, including a juvenile board, is not considered to be a student of the school district in which the program or facility is physically located.
SECTION 2. Makes application of this Act prospective to the 2007-2008 school year.
SECTION 3. Effective date: upon passage or September 1, 2007.